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**Mrpatriot**

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it
or who has said it, not even if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your reason and your
own common sense."
Buddha
http://www.designed-perception.com/religion.html

**Sunny**

This is how I live my life. Heartflowers

**Gibbie** · **Gibbie** ^D ^D ^D whoa User ID: 49076 04-26-2012 11:12 PM **Posts: 7,187**

Mrpatriot Wrote:

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it
or who has said it, not even if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your reason and your
own common sense."
Buddha
http://www.designed-perception.com/religion.html

Buddha would have made a fine Deist.

**isness**

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 92411 04-26-2012 11:21 PM

Just believe in buddha then? Lmao

**FreedomStands**

Mrpatriot Wrote:

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it
or who has said it, not even if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your reason and your
own common sense."
Buddha
http://www.designed-perception.com/religion.html

Yeah

**Zero Point**

I read a Buddhist text somewhere or other:

The holiest of scriptures are merely rags with which to wipe the pus from your boils.

I'd be a Buddhist, but they don't believe in God.

**The Lucky AC** Everything in life is luck User ID: 888 04-27-2012 12:18 AM

A wonderful path...each has their own.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67884 04-27-2012 12:23 AM

Been reading "My Big T.O.E." by Thomas Campbell. He stresses that the best way to approach anything is with an open mind, but skeptical. He says, "don't believe and don't disbelieve". He devotes pages and pages on how to do this!

**kalamity kool**

Mrpatriot Wrote:

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it
or who has said it, not even if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your reason and your
own common sense."
Buddha
http://www.designed-perception.com/religion.html

Yep.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 92018 04-27-2012 01:17 AM

Yet another NWO minion anti-religion thread

**ASA nli** lop guest User ID: 88446 04-27-2012 01:22 AM

Zero Point Wrote:

I read a Buddhist text somewhere or other:

The holiest of scriptures are merely rags with which to wipe the pus from your boils.

I'd be a Buddhist, but they don't believe in God.

Bhudda himself was reportedly an agnostic. Knowing all that was knowable he didn't know if something was behind the mystery. Taoist and Zen hold everything is of itself so. A common Bhuddist and Zen take on this is, how can there be a god when everything is god. Taoist are more apt to say there is nothing but god.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 88446 04-27-2012 01:24 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Yet another NWO minion anti-religion thread

**FreedomStands**

Zero Point Wrote:

I read a Buddhist text somewhere or other:

The holiest of scriptures are merely rags with which to wipe the pus from your boils.

I'd be a Buddhist, but they don't believe in God.

Sounds like what you read might have been more like the Zen Buddhist philosophy which also says if You see the Buddha, kill him.

The Pali Canon is the mainstream Buddhist collection of writings, and doesn't really say such hostile things as the Zen Buddhist stuff which is mostly about explaining anti-dogma and being detached from even the Buddha and any religious teachings that might keep a person from enlightenment or simply "being" in the case of the Zen philosophy.

**FreedomStands** · (This post was last modified: 04-27-2012 01:26 AM by FreedomStands.)

ASA nli Wrote:

Zero Point Wrote:
I read a Buddhist text somewhere or other:

The holiest of scriptures are merely rags with which to wipe the pus from your boils.

I'd be a Buddhist, but they don't believe in God.

Bhudda himself was reportedly an agnostic. Knowing all that was knowable he didn't know if something was behind the mystery. Taoist and Zen hold everything is of itself so. A common Bhuddist and Zen take on this is, how can there be a god when everything is god. Taoist are more apt to say there is nothing but god.

There is nothing but God.